Ivan Lee is a founder and CEO with nine years of AI-focused engineering and product leadership, best known for building Datasaur to enable private, air-gapped deployment of LLMs for regulated enterprises. He previously sold a startup to Yahoo, drove AI products at Yahoo and Apple, and scaled Datasaur to serve financial, healthcare, legal, and government teams that require zero data leakage. Ivan blends hands-on technical depth (MS in Computer Science from Stanford) with pragmatic product instincts, turning frontier model capabilities into deployable, auditable systems. He’s motivated by a single thesis—that the most powerful AI is the one organizations fully control—and routinely helps customers trade third-party convenience for enterprise-grade privacy without sacrificing performance. An operator comfortable in both startups and large tech, he also offers practical evaluation guidance to teams building private LLMs.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Founder, S10, F19, Founder, S10, F19 at StartX
International Community School
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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